Tomorrow Plan Speaker Series: Rue Mapp
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Tomorrow Plan Speaker Series: Rue Mapp
Date:
November 2, 2018
Time:
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM CDT
Website:
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Event Description:
Rue Mapp is the founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro, a national not-for-profit organization with the motto “Where Black People and Nature Meet.” Through personal stories, Mapp will share the motivation behind Outdoor Afro, its evolution and its social impact to date. She will also outline the urgency for why more diverse audiences need to build a local and relevant relationship with the outdoors as a pathway toward greater community health and environmental sustainability. The Tomorrow Plan Speaker Series is an implementation strategy of The Tomorrow Plan, a plan for the sustainable development of Greater Des Moines (DSM). New this year is a partnership with Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, which is hosting the series and enlisting experts from the State Historical Society of Iowa to present brief historical preview talks before each keynote presentation. For more information, please visit dmampo.org/the-tomorrow-plan/speaker-series.
Connecting people to nature is the central theme to Mapp’s calling, and it will be the focus of her talk in DSM. She started Outdoor Afro as a blog in 2009, and it has since grown to a national, not-for-profit network of outdoors leaders who train volunteers to connect people with nature. Outdoor Afro is active in 30 states and has reached more than 35,000 people through its events.
Mapp’s talk is timely for DSM. Leaders of Capital Crossroads, a vision plan for the region, have committed to using a diversity, equity and inclusion lens when envisioning, designing and implementing projects across the region. One of those projects aims to reconnect people to the metro’s 150 miles of rivers and creeks as envisioned in the Greater Des Moines Water Trails and Greenways Master Plan.
Connecting people to nature is the central theme to Mapp’s calling, and it will be the focus of her talk in DSM. She started Outdoor Afro as a blog in 2009, and it has since grown to a national, not-for-profit network of outdoors leaders who train volunteers to connect people with nature. Outdoor Afro is active in 30 states and has reached more than 35,000 people through its events.
Mapp’s talk is timely for DSM. Leaders of Capital Crossroads, a vision plan for the region, have committed to using a diversity, equity and inclusion lens when envisioning, designing and implementing projects across the region. One of those projects aims to reconnect people to the metro’s 150 miles of rivers and creeks as envisioned in the Greater Des Moines Water Trails and Greenways Master Plan.
